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Title: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: EternalEyes on April 30, 2016, 23:38:48
Dev Blog – April 30th 2016  

And we’re back! Sorry about the postponement of this dev blog, exam season is upon us and as a result less time is able to be spent by us developing the game in this period. However, we have done our best to put as much time into SLO as possible without wrecking our futures; still, keep in mind the content we have available will not be to the same extent as the other dev blogs. With that said, let’s get started!

Texturing

Matt has maintained his ferocious pace and has completed the texturing of yet more of the hidden hill buildings over the past month, all of which will be added to the rapidly growing building compilation which is sure to fill up my hardrive pretty soon. His exceptional skills have also landed him some freelance gigs with Raf which have taken some of his time away from SLO, but he still has found time to help Vreg implement the character into the game and once those are wrapped up he will be back to focusing applying his talents in completing our village, jutsus and characters!
(https://i.gyazo.com/2b62cae0983088bef0eb9e1575a8dffd.jpg)

Modelling/Animation

Unfortunately, little has occurred in terms of actual modelling since the last blog, with Rafael being occupied with his work in the military as well the freelance project in conjunction with Matt, but he has continued to help Matt with polishing the buildings to be ready for texturing, and Vreg with implanting the character clothing models into the latest SLO build. Similarly, Othman has decided to postpone his work on the hair until he has completed his exams- hence the continued presence of the bald character within the game.

Concept Art

In regards to Concept Art, I have dedicated any revision breaks to continuing to develop the hidden snow concept, and have made some decent progress, fixing some of the perspective issues and laying in photo textures to start to establish the realistic quality our game is going for. Due to the slower progress in the other areas of development, I've decided to show an early WIP of this concept, side by side to the thumbnail to show the iterative steps that have been taken and the changes that have been made from the thumbnail to now. I would not be showing this normally and actually this will be the first time even the team have seen it, so expect many changes from now to final. With that being said, I welcome the critique of any issues you may see in regards to the concept, better to get them fixed at this stage rather than once everything has been tightly rendered.
(https://i.gyazo.com/f444bf5120b599ceea0ab8e917090f25.jpg)

Music

If you have been paying close attention to Rustams Soundcloud account, you might have again got an early look at the two gems he has created in the past months. The tracks, entitled ‘Training Hard’ and ‘Heart of the Shinobi’ are opposite in style, with ‘Training Hard’ being a faster paced, action based soundtrack that will no doubt act as perfect background music for intense shinobi training regimes, and ‘Heart of the Shinobi’ being more of a soulful piece that will likely serve as ambient background music for when the player is wondering around the world. Rustam’s soundcloud account is linked below.
https://soundcloud.com/rustam-shafigullin (https://soundcloud.com/rustam-shafigullin)

Vreg

If you haven’t yet picked up on my references throughout this blog, we just released a new update to the game, SLO Pre-Alpha version 1.0.9.8, which was pretty much single handedly implemented by the one and only Vregmeister. This update is centred around the addition of the new character clothing seen in the last dev blog, and includes the ability to both change the colour of the vest or remove it to see the shirt underneath as an indication of our clothing modularity, aswell as the inclusion of a new SLO title screen OST from Rustam’s growing collection of tracks. Like the rest of us, Vreg has been heavily tied down with vital university studies; I hope the fact that he was able to dedicate some time to getting this update out to you guys is appreciated – I know it is a long anticipated addition to the game for many of you! I’ve put some screenshots of the character in game to give you guys an idea of how it looks, but I urge you to go test it out yourself, they don’t do it justice.
(https://i.gyazo.com/c730a64634dba9cf11ef027a5bd978fd.gif)
(https://i.gyazo.com/0c9e9cf3f7b25edfadfbf3a2bf1f493f.gif)
(https://i.gyazo.com/2140c63e0bd126f36ef13652dd5d01f3.jpg)
(https://i.gyazo.com/dba5a127aeb4d66d447166816bf68756.jpg)
(https://i.gyazo.com/a962c979fcf79459172100bd7aee66b6.png)
(https://i.gyazo.com/78d3bf85d3f1cea1cc35c3e0b0b5f62d.png)

https://www.shinobilifeonline.com/index.php?action=downloads (https://www.shinobilifeonline.com/index.php?action=downloads)

And with that our forth dev blog is complete. As I have mentioned throughout, this is a tough and unusual period for much of the team, and as a result unlike the other dev blogs I won’t confirm that we will have a dev blog next fortnight. However once the exam season is over for us, we will have far more time than we had even before exams (summer holidays), allowing us to get to work on getting the village and new systems, jutsus, environments and character models into the game for you to enjoy. Until then, sayonara shinobis!

 
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Manuster on April 30, 2016, 23:46:26
The Hidden Snow.

Oh my goodness.

I'm actually speechless.

I just pray that it isn't impossible to implement.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: GhostParadise on May 01, 2016, 00:13:54
nice!, keep up the good work guys!!!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Mercury on May 01, 2016, 01:37:15
since no hair.
i hate that

ill make some quick hair samples show you them if u like them ill become a dev and make hair until the hair guy gets back
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: popcornfrenzy on May 01, 2016, 02:49:25
Wow I wish I could script and model :3
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Leebz on May 01, 2016, 02:54:49
since no hair.
i hate that

ill make some quick hair samples show you them if u like them ill become a dev and make hair until the hair guy gets back
Becoming staff isn't as easy as "OH I make hair, I will become dev"
Idk if you are a 3D modeler but you should probably apply in a more professional way.
Sorry if I came off snappy but Vreg has very high standards in his team for a reason.
Not only do you have to be able to model hair, you gotta fit it to the games art style too.

Back on topic: Great dev blog, can't wait for the buildings to be put to use :)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Mercury on May 01, 2016, 03:00:56
since no hair.
i hate that

ill make some quick hair samples show you them if u like them ill become a dev and make hair until the hair guy gets back
Becoming staff isn't as easy as "OH I make hair, I will become dev"
Idk if you are a 3D modeler but you should probably apply in a more professional way.
Sorry if I came off snappy but Vreg has very high standards in his team for a reason.
Not only do you have to be able to model hair, you gotta fit it to the games art style too.

Back on topic: Great dev blog, can't wait for the buildings to be put to use :)
Chirstmas Man!!!
uh ah i mean thanks for the advice i will head your warning
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Reminance on May 01, 2016, 09:46:20
Great dev blog as always ^^
Hidden Snow concept looks amazing imho.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Mars on May 01, 2016, 09:52:35
Great job!
Thank you to everyone in the team for taking time out of your days to do unpaid work that makes the community happy. We all really appreciate it :)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Nova on May 01, 2016, 10:10:54
Looks amazing, just like usual.
Loving the hidden snow concept.

As for Mercury, it's not that simple.
And they have a person working on hair, it's just that it was something new for the guy and he doesn't like to show unfinished things.
(Said so in a previous Dev blog, I advise you look at those if you haven't already.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: taigakun on May 01, 2016, 10:15:57
Nice work guys as always ;)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: ParadoxRonin on May 01, 2016, 22:33:03
nice
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Reminance on May 01, 2016, 22:38:51
nice

Lol you're active
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: ParadoxRonin on May 01, 2016, 22:46:50
nice

Lol you're active
of course haven't heard from yall in awhile just looking at the progression
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Mars on May 01, 2016, 22:59:23
of course haven't heard from yall in awhile just looking at the progression
Come back!!!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: waly206 on May 01, 2016, 23:05:31
The hidden snow concept looks amazing
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Ken on May 02, 2016, 00:32:49
OMG Hidden Snow ! Aaaaaawesome! Keep up the good work. :D :D
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: popcornfrenzy on May 02, 2016, 06:46:29
Wow I wish I could model like that O.O by the way keep up the goodwork
hopefully SLO released is going to be at faster rate cause of your continous hardwork :)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: SirTroll on May 02, 2016, 08:30:23
Oml the hidden snow concept is literally amazing

It kinda looks like the dome will open up to reveal some kinda death laser but yeah xD
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Mars on May 02, 2016, 11:16:04
Got me even more pumped for snow than I already was
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Cryptonexin on May 02, 2016, 15:17:56
Thanks for uploading concept art of the Hidden snow, not only did you guys do a amazing job....
But I also got new wanking material......
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Yamasukage on May 02, 2016, 18:02:37
Whenever I look at the things on this Dev Blog I keep on forgetting that its an indie game, great work guys and goodluck with your exams and anyone else who's writing
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: ParadoxRonin on May 02, 2016, 22:23:27
of course haven't heard from yall in awhile just looking at the progression
Come back!!!
of course ill come back! :)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 4 - April 30th 2016
Post by: Shadowybeats on May 09, 2016, 20:40:41
Awesome artwork! I would love for it to be implemented like that :D.
Keep up the awesome work!